who has the highest mileage

no-oneknowsme

My Husbands 2003 skoda octavia taxi was still going strong at 250k.

vax2002

Guy up the road who runs a vineyard has a Volvo 245 with 870,000 miles clocked up , been in the papers several times with it and its the same engine and gearbox !

cyclonebri1

mikey72 wrote: »

What's the secret?
All my diesels (and older cars) get oil changes every 5000 miles or annually,whichever is first.
Petrols are every 10,000 or annually.
Semi synthetic, or 20/50 classic oil.

Anyone never bother, or much the same?

Oil change every 25k whether it needs it or not:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

But seriousley an oil and filter change every 6k/annually, and always the cheapest correct spec full synthetic that the car will take, both petrol and diesel;)

loofer

2001 VW Bora TDI... 180K and still manages to regularly achieve ~53mpg

smudger1964

1998 106 diesel 118000 miles still returning about 68 mpg

CRH71

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But seriousley an oil and filter change every 6k/annually, and always the cheapest correct spec full synthetic that the car will take, both petrol and diesel;)

Same here. I always ignore "service computers" and work off of mileage once a car's got over the 100,000 mark.

Fully-synthetic oil (ASDA do some adequate ones in their "own brand" range), good quality filter every 7,500 miles (twice as often as manufacturer recommended). I also change coolant, brake fluid and gearbox/rear axle oils every 2 years, regardless.

New fluids and filters are ALWAYS much cheaper than an early replacement engine or gearbox!

Nixer

This came up at work earlier this week so I checked mine, 1999 Golf diesel which is on 203k. Won hands down at work but pretty average for this thread. Partner had a Volvo S40 (petrol/LPG) that was on 250k when the auto box bit the dust.

Partner says the highest mileage is a Volvo P1800 in the US that's done 2.9 million miles. We used to have one of those too but we can't remember what it had done.

ovlov25

My 1995 Lexus LS400 has just turned 155,000 and my diesel Yaris has 87000.

I want to run the wheels off both which is hopefully 200,000+ in both

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Volvo 940 estate in the local free paper for sale with 221,000 miles on the clock.

somethingcorporate

W reg Yaris 1.0 bought with 102k on the clock 4 years ago now has 142k Has not skipped a beat in those 4 years! lovely little motor.